It is 9000 farking degrees in this house. I swear it’s hotter inside than it is outside.
And it’s an old house. I knew that when I bought it. There’s no HVAC in the upstairs and precious little downstairs. This was (I hope you’ll understand) a problem in February. And it’s a bigger one now.
Why not put in HVAC? Because the wiring dates from the (no kidding) 1930s (just like the kitchen, actually). It’s old and rickety and without grounds. No fooling. We’re straining it enough with the increased demands from the computers and suchlike. Hooking an HVAC unit up to it would probably burn the house down.
I’ve got a firm coming in to do the re-wiring…in two weeks. It’s take…two weeks. That’s a MONTH. Then the HVAC guys come in to set up the new gear. Another week.
Five weeks in the blistering…muggy heat of the Mid-Ohio Valley.
Pray for me.
We’ll have to make it a point to raise a frosty glass in sympathy to you this weekend at Anita’s. 
NOW do you see why the house was cheap? 
This is the hottest stretch of days in May that I’ve experience since moving to No. Ohio in 1971. tomndebb would probably confirm.
Suck it up, soldier. And get that place shipshape for your first Ohio dopefest. We could use the ac.
1930’s? Do you even have 220 volts wired to the house? Also, I absolutely hate installing duct work in an old house not made for it. There are no clearances and it takes forever to do. All that and cats love to shit under a house, that’s why I left the HVAC business, screaming, after 2 years. I would much rather dig ditches.
Good Luck!!!
I lived in military housing at Wright-Patterson outside Dayton, Ohio for two years without air conditioning in the late '70s. I remember days when it was 99° with about 97% humidity.
You’ll live. You’ll find everywhere in the world you can escape to that has AC, but you’ll live.
Curiously, we’re thinking of sometime in early July.
But don’t tell anyone.
You have only one mission between now and the soiree’. Make sure tomndebb comes. I don’t know how you’ll do it, other than your literate charm, but do it.
The bottom feeders(myself included) and the weasels will show up. Especially those Southwest Ohio types(you know who you are!!).
Keep telling them how much “ballroom” you have at your palace. That will only encourage them.
What’s worse than this heatwave and daily torrential rain we’re having is the fact that the person who controls the AC around here will not turn it on because it is May. Doesn’t matter that it is 86 degrees and muggy, it’s May. Doesn’t matter that it is a good 10-15 degrees hotter upstairs where I live than downstairs where she lives, it’s May. No white shoes before Memorial Day (except for Easter Sunday) and no AC before June 15, earliest. And the AC isn’t working well at work, and the two low speeds of AC in the car don’t work, so I either freeze or sweat all day. But there are no cicadas!